Bunbuncita ( @bunbuncita.bsky.social ) will be portraying a version of Chile's traditional cueca dance with a sapphic couple, one dressed in the traditional women's dress and one in the typical man's outfit. It's a twist on heteronormative courtship, while celebrating queer history! #Chile #LGBTQ

Betta ( @/faleneee on Instagram ) will be painting a Latina and Black couple in the '50s or '60s United States, focusing on the Rockabilly/Greaser subcultures of the time. Expect both butch and femme lesbian representation! #LesbianArt #QueerHistory #WLWArt #QueerArt #LGBTQ #Zine

I was finally healthy enough to work on my piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social today!! Here’s a peak into my illustration (featuring gay Muslim men in Al-Andalus). If you want to get the upcoming art book with dozens of other queer historical paintings from many artists, check the project out! ✨

Get ready for some gay medieval knights with Wortel's ( @/worteltje7 on Instagram ) illustration for the We've Always Been Here queer history zine! The piece will likely be based around a jousting match, set either just before or just afterward. #Knights #MedievalArt #QueerHistory #Zines

Back on my scribbly chaos spaghetti shit, and I feel like I finally have a good sense of direction with this piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social's zine, "We've Always Been Here." Really excited for the lines and big dramatic shadows - you know they're my favorite parts. #WIP #lgbtq

Sneak peek of the sketch for my @taplingzines.bsky.social piece!

Ray ( @/_starray.night_ on Instagram ) is making a set of limited edition bookmarks to accompany the Kickstarter for our We've Always Been Here queer zine. Expect two women in traditional hanfu, plus a transfemme flapper applying her makeup! #QueerHistory #Kickstarter #Transgender #Hanfu #WLWArt

Tiffany Baxter ( @tiffbaxter.bsky.social ) will be illustrating some Anglo-Saxon lesbians, featuring the decorative style of the time! She'll be showing us a glimpse of life in this less represented medieval period, and the queer love that existed there. #QueerHistory #WLWArt #LesbianArt #Zines

Inky ( @inkythoughts.bsky.social ) will be illustrating a trans woman during the Korean Joseon dynasty, alongside her wife! A mirror will be used as symbolism of their hidden queer identities, while the scene also shows their subtle, but shared, joy. #Korea #QueerHistory #Transgender #TransJoy

For our We've Always Been Here zine, Julie Vasques ( @julievasques.bsky.social ) is taking us to Ancient Greece with a sapphic illustration, with one woman playing the lyre or phorminx while the other dotes on her. #AncientGreece #SapphicArt #Zines #WLW

To show the longstanding history of asexuality and religion, Void ( @/void_makes on Instagram ) will be embroidering a nun holding her habit, as a symbol of chastity, during the Renaissance period. #Asexual #AsexualityArt #ReligiousArt #QueerHistory #Zines #Embroidery

a little something of my piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social's zine!!!

I’m SO excited to make this painting! There are going to be sooo many tiny tile details, tenderness, and subtle cultural and faith based parts to show the inclusion of queer people in historical Al-Andalus!! 🥰

Sapling ( @sacredsapling.bsky.social ) is bringing us to Al-Andalus during the Islamic Golden Age, with two queer Muslim men wandering the royal grounds to the Alhambra, one of which is Tuareg and visibility disabled. It’ll be painted in watercolor! #DisabilityArt #Tuareg #QueerMuslims #AlAndalus

Leeminarium ( @leeminarium.bsky.social ) is bringing us to the Victorian era, with a T4T husband and wife trying on each other's clothes in a private moment of gender euphoria. It'll be filled with decorative details and lots of trans joy! #T4T #TransArt #TransJoy #QueerArt #Zines

a little sketch wip of my piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social ✨ I'm very excited to keep working on it!!

okenki ( @/okenki on Tumblr ) is illustrating sapphic Senegalese queer love for the We've Always Been Here zine! You can expect a domestic scene of preparing food, with a discrete moment of handholding. #Senegal #Africa #AfricanArt #WLWArt #QueerZine

Wanted to show you all a little sneak peek of the sketch for @taplingzines.bsky.social I'm working on because I drew the cutest old woman ever:

Michael ( @linnkyleo.bsky.social ) is painting a sapphic Filipina couple for the We've Always Been Here zine, with one of them wearing a baro't saya and the other in a barong tagalog (traditional feminine/masculine clothing). #FilipinoArt #WLWArt #SapphicArt #Zines

#wip pra @taplingzines.bsky.social ✨

Look mum it’s me! Ahh I’m so happy to be a part of this amazing zine and I hope y’all will like the artwork I’m working on for this project! 🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️

Itssteffnow ( @itssteffnow.bsky.social ) will be illustrating a 1930s scene in the back alley of a club, with a gay man and nonbinary person sharing a cigarette as they chat. Expect intimate body language, showing their closeness! #QueerHistory #QueerArt #Nonbinary #Zines #LGBTQ

It's me!! Please keep an eye out for this fantast project 👀

Diving into the longstanding history of queer people in the arts, Lyanna ( @lyannatropes.bsky.social ) will be painting an artist and her muse in an atelier during the Italian Renaissance era. It’s sapphic love as artistic inspiration! #SapphicArt #WLW #LGBTQArt #Zines

For the We’ve Always Been Here zine, Kani Souris ( @kanisouris.bsky.social ) is bringing us to the early/mid 1900s with Mexican gay men, portraying their hidden yet celebrated love with a mariachi serenade scene! #Mexico #Mexican #Mariachi #LGBTQ #QueerArt #Zines

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Itty bitty sneak peak at the illustration I'm doing for @taplingzines.bsky.social 's "We've always been here" project :))

Anker Barnabás ( @thecojsz.bsky.social ) plans to paint an old couple (or throuple!) in Eastern Europe, during the 10th-11th century, bathing in a river together. There will be Magyar clothing and items visible, showing their pre-Christian Hungarian culture. #Hungary #QueerHistory #QueerZine

preview of my zine piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social's We've Always Been Here 🌈 Joseon woman giving her wife a little smooch 🫶 🏳️‍⚧️

For this zine, Faust ( @shantywolf.bsky.social ) is illustrating the homoerotic dynamics within the Wonhwa, a 6th century (Silla Era) Korean class of all-female warriors, which preceded the all-male Hwarang! #KoreanHistory #Korea #QueerHistory #QueerZine #ArtZines

For the We've Always Been Here zine, Mankadavi ( @mankadavi.bsky.social ) is bringing us to the Philippines with two queer Igorot warriors in the mountainous Cordilleran landscape. #Filipino #FilipinoArt #Philippines #FilipinoHistory #LGBTQArt

I started working on my entry for the queer history book "We've always been here" by @taplingzines.bsky.social So far so good! Stay tuned for more updates! #zine #queerart #queerhistory #illustration #digitalart #sketch

Aediondraws ( @aediondraws.bsky.social ) is bringing genderfluidity to 1880s England, planning to dress their character in an extravagant, androgynous outfit for a lavish ball. Expect high society with clothing that would make anyone question cis-normativity! #QueerHistory #Genderfluid #Zines

Veerryy vague color blocking done on my sketch for @taplingzines.bsky.social 's upcoming zine 🥰 Here's a tiny preview hehehe I'm gonna have to draw soooo much corn very soon 🌽 🫠 #Haudenosaunee #Mohawk #2Spirit #TwoSpirit #Indigiqueer #Indigequeer

Sariel Snowings ( @sarielsnowings.bsky.social ) will be illustrating several trans and gender-expansive friends getting ready for a Bacchanal-style event (a lively, drunken party celebrating the God of Wine) in Ancient Greece. #AncientGreece #GreekHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQArt #Zines

Sharing a little sneak peek of my artwork for @taplingzines.bsky.social We’ve Always Been Here zine! ✨ If you love to see queer rep in history you should definitely check it out!

Working on something exquisite, gay, and sassy for @taplingzines.bsky.social #art #OCart #WIP #sketch #zine #queer #MMart

I am cooking hard for this great zine !! So happy to be part of the selected artists (that you should all go check out because they’re all incredibly talented people <3)

Shapelytimber ( @shapelytimber.bsky.social ) plans to bring us to Nice, France with a sapphic couple of a fisher woman and her lover, jumping into her boat while wearing a bouquetière (a traditional celebratory costume dress). #France #NiceFrance #ArtZine #QueerArt #LGBTQ

started working on my sapphic Sámi women contribution for We've Always Been Here (a queer!) zine by @taplingzines.bsky.social 🥺 here's a crop of what is a much larger painting! I can't wait to get into this <3

He quoted, "Although Celtic women were beautiful, their men preferred to sleep with each other," and described how pre-Roman homosexuality was widely practiced in Celtic Britain, particularly in men. Of course, sapphic women also existed—all the way back then, and many years later like in my piece.

Something exciting today—a preview of my sketch of 19th century Welsh lesbians for 'We've Always Been Here', a queer history zine by @taplingzines.bsky.social! I'm excited to render this. Ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus' (60-30 BC) account is the first we have of queerness in Wales. ⬇️

Queer nuns will be making it into the pages of our zine with thenothingmaker's ( @thenothingmaker.bsky.social ) colored pencil illustration! Get ready for French cistercians working in a garden, inspired by the Gardens of Valsaintes! #LGBTQArt #WLWArt #SapphicArt #Zines #GayZine

If you haven't joined our email list yet, now is a great time! Next week we'll share some sneak peeks into our upcoming historical queer zine, "We've Always Been Here," including some works in progress, info on limited-edition merch, and more! Click the yellow button here: taplingzines.carrd.co

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Our second merch artist for We’ve Always Been Here is DonDad ( @dellaactually.bsky.social or @/donaldtheduckdad on Tumblr), also creating a sticker sheet! It will center around sapphic Medieval nuns, surrounded by symbolic herbs often grown in monastery gardens. #Sapphic #SapphicArt #WLW #ArtZine

Performance art has always been deeply connected to queer history, and Braiden ( @/breadystickle on IG ) is representing this for the zine through a sapphic couple in Japan, with one woman a geisha and the other a poet! #Sapphic #WLWArt #QueerHistory #Japan #Japanese

Collophora ( @/collophora on IG+Tumblr ) will be taking us to after the fall of the Roman Empire, with a sapphic couple exploring an abandoned Roman thermae (large imperial bath complexes), likely with symbolic statues or murals! #SapphicArt #WLWArt #LGBTQZine #ArtZine #QueerArt

Chubby-shark ( @chubby-shark.bsky.social ) is bringing early-Middle Age Arabic and Islamic representation to this zine, depicting how, with the traditions of poetry and song, it was common for a man to praise another man’s beauty. #QueerMuslim #QueerIslam #LGBTQ #LGBTQArt #QueerHistory

Thank you all for 500 followers!! ✨ We're so glad you're here with us as we work to fight queer erasure through this collaborative art zine. We also hope you all will LOVE the gorgeous, multi-cultural illustrations our artists are making to celebrate queer history with us! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️